Аннотация:In a 1967 interview with Giles Gordon, Joe Orton recalls the infamous book-defacing scandal five years earlier and attacks the libraries for their shelves rubbish.' incident, he explains, reminds him of the Bible, and he quotes a portion Ecclesiastes 12:12 to illustrate his rage at so many rubbishy novels and rubbishy books. This Biblical passage speaks the endless production books, and warns the reader to beware any books which exceed the the Shepherd: The the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected which are given by one Shepherd. My son, beware anything these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness the flesh (Ecc. 12: 11-12). These verses distinguish between the Book God and the books men, between the fixed and fixing purity a writing that repeats its natural origin (the sayings the Shepherd) and the dangerous impurity all writing that exceeds or strays from that proper source. A margin is here inscribed between good writing and bad writing. proper Book appears as the homogeneous, literal transcription an original, divine truth, while the improper book seems to obscure that truth by going beyond it, by exceeding it. Thus the sign the dangerous, unnatural book is its heterogeneity, its going beyond or doubling the natural source. In its difference is its error.
